Mesoamerican Civilizations
This is the oldest culture in Mesoamerica.
What is the Olmec?
This country led the way for early exploration.
What is Portugal?
These are large farms Spanish settlers grew crops on.
What are plantations?
A disease that caused high fever and often death
What is smallpox?
Europeans wanted to find a trade route to Asia for this reason.
What is trade?
These two civilizations had two calendars: one for religious ceremonies and one for harvesting.
Who are the Aztec and Mayans?
This was the main reason why countries wanted to start exploration.
What is to find a direct route to Asia?
This is the main reason why the French settled in North America.
What is the fur trade?
This Spanish conquistador is responsible for the fall of the Aztec empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Europeans used enslaved Africans for this reason.
What is to work on their plantations?
Mathematics was one achievement of this civilization.
Who are the Mayans?
This Portugese explorer was the first to sail around the tip of Africa and reach India.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
This is an economic theory that depends on a greater amount of exports than imports in order to make money.
What is known as mercantilism?
This Spanish conquistador was responsible for the fall of the Inca civilization.
Who was Francisco Pizzaro?
This Greek invention was used in order to determine latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
This civilization taught boys to become warriors from an early age.
Who are the Aztecs?
This was the first man to circumnavigate around the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellen?
This is the buying and selling of goods in large amount.
What is commerce?
This was the light skinned god the Aztec mistaken Cortez for.
Who was Quetzlcoatal?
This helped Europeans colonize the natives very easily.
What are diseases/ smallpox?
This langauge was spoken by the Inca people.
What is Quechua?
This was the agreement that divided South America between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This system of trade covered trade between five continents.
What is the Colombian exchange?
These are the two main reason why the Spanish explored the Americas.
What was to gain wealth for Spain and convert natives to Christianity?
This explorer traveled to the tip of African.
Who was Bartholomeu Dias?